Chapter 902 The Injured God
Chapter 902 The Injured God
"Um... Master, what's going on here?" Lou Guanning, along with his buddies and the rest of Team Happy, sat in a row, staring at the scene of a large-scale domestic violence incident. The heads and eyes of the group followed the target from left to right in perfect unison, a testament to the sheer spectacle of the scene.
"Hmm, I don't know if you guys have heard of Sun Zheping." Xiao Nai said, turning his head from right to left with everyone else. Then, with a bang, the toy hammer labeled 1000T in the Yizhan training room flew off its head due to the heavy impact, and everyone's heads followed the hammer in a perfectly synchronized left-to-right arch.
"Hey, Lao Zhang, don't lift that chair, I really can't take it!" A scream of agony drew everyone's attention back to the scene of domestic violence... Hmm... the domestic violence was escalating...
"Sun Zheping? Who is he?" Tang Rou, who had just started playing Glory, naturally didn't know who Sun Zheping was, so she asked while watching the domestic violence scene.
“It’s normal that you don’t know him. Most Glory players who know him are veterans who have been playing for more than five years, since he retired relatively early,” Xiao Nai said.
When Xiao Nai mentioned the other player's name, the other players in the training room were somewhat shocked. Even if some of them didn't know him, it was impossible for them not to know him since they were in the professional scene. After all, many of the Berserker's tactics came from him, and when they were learning those tactics, they would naturally have heard of him to some extent.
It's normal that they didn't recognize him before, since they've never seen him in person, or if they have, it's only on TV, online, or in newspapers. Plus, he's been out of the public eye for so long, they might not recognize him when they first meet.
However, as a Berserker player, Lou Guanning knew of this master player even though he had never met him.
It's important to know that in the history of the professional league, Sun Zheping was the first player to possess the Berserker skill, and his fame in the league back then even surpassed that of Yu Feng, who is now an All-Star. When he and Zhang Jiale unleashed their dazzling combo that swept the entire league, the league's golden generation was still far behind them.
As the best duo of that era, their final achievement was reaching the professional league finals in the third season.
Unfortunately, although they were incredibly dazzling at the time, even proclaiming it the dawn of the dual-core era, they unfortunately encountered Ye Xiu and Excellent Era. And at that time, Excellent Era was invincible!
They also became the final piece of the puzzle for Excellent Era's three-peat.
That game was the closest Sun Zheping ever came to the championship. Although they continued to work hard, it wasn't until the fifth season that they had another chance to challenge for the championship. But that year, he was injured and left the professional league for good, and then there was no news of him at all.
With Sun Zheping's departure, the entire Hundred Blossoms team was almost entirely carried by Zhang Jiale. Although he led Hundred Blossoms to the finals in both the fifth and seventh seasons, he was ultimately just one person. The state of Hundred Blossoms after his departure clearly showed that their overall strength wasn't outstanding. While they could handle weaker teams, they struggled against teams capable of contending for the playoffs. Xiao Nai briefly explained the situation of Zhang Jiale and Sun Zheping, and the Happy team members immediately focused their attention on Sun Zheping's injured hand.
Although Xiao Nai didn't say which hand Sun Zheping was injured in, judging from Zhang Jiale's various inhumane beatings of Sun Zheping, but all of which precisely avoided one hand, they knew where the other party was injured.
Seeing the regretful expressions on the faces of the Happy players looking at Sun Zheping's injured hand, Xiao Nai said, "This is the most common occupational hazard for professional players. Fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders, etc., are all very important to us professional players, and they are the areas we pay the most attention to. That's why we tell you to maintain and massage these areas every day. Sun Zheping was so amazing back then, but he still had his entire professional career cut short by an injury. And there are quite a few professional players like him in the professional scene. He's just the only one above Sun Zheping who retired because of him."
Xiao Nai had no choice. The training of the Happy team had been too excessive and intense lately. Xiao Nai was worried that the excessive training would affect their future careers, so he wanted to take this opportunity to let them understand.
Lou Guanning and the others immediately focused their attention on the figure in front of them, who was being beaten and running around by Zhang Jiale. They never expected that this guy who was fleeing in such a sorry state was actually the Mad Swordsman God who had disappeared for four years!
The crowd simply couldn't reconcile the image of the person who had just fought so wildly with the one who was now being beaten so badly by Zhang Jiale that he was running away with his head in his hands.
At the same time, another thought also appeared in their minds: this master had just fought that high-level battle with Ye Xiu, so how well has the opponent recovered from his injuries?
While Xiao Nai and the others were chatting, Zhang Jiale finally vented his anger. Despite looking like he'd fought fiercely… in reality, besides a bruised and swollen face, disheveled hair, torn clothes, and trembling legs, Zhang Jiale was unharmed. His arms and shoulders were completely uninjured. This proved that under Xiao Nai's special training, Zhang Jiale had made significant progress in accuracy and prediction.
"Alright, stop lying there. I know how much force I used. Get up," Zhang Jiale said. He knew his partner was going to retire back then; as his teammate, he knew the situation best. He had originally wanted his partner to stay on the team and help him. He had even discussed it with the team, arranging for Sun Zheping to take on a coaching role. You have to understand, life wasn't easy for professional players after retirement back then.
After all his hard work and getting everything done, these guys suddenly left, saying they didn't want to drag him down. And not only did they leave, they even changed their contact information, making it impossible for him to find out about them all these years. Heaven knows how worried he was about that guy's hands all these years; he wouldn't be satisfied until he gave him a good beating.
But since he was an old friend, Zhang Jiale was still very concerned about the condition of his hand. As he helped the other person up, he asked, "What's the condition of your hand now?"
"I wouldn't say it was great. You saw it yourself, we almost fought to a draw." Sun Zheping's tone held a hint of disappointment. He wouldn't have played so conservatively; with a health advantage, he immediately unleashed his full power. (End of Chapter)
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